Brussels selects seven tasks in Spain to spice up strategic uncooked supplies | Economy | EUROtoday

The European Commission has chosen on Tuesday the primary 47 strategic tasks to “boost the capacities of strategic raw materials” in Europe, of which seven are in Spain, particularly in Extremadura and Andalusia. With these privileged tasks, which is able to profit from accelerated processes and “favorable” financing situations, Brussels seeks to spice up the extraction and processing of minerals akin to lithium, cobalt or nickel.

These are basic supplies for the manufacturing of electrical vehicles batteries, the impulse of renewable energies or the protection business that the union now seeks to strengthen and speed up, however on which the twenty -seven have extreme exterior dependence, particularly China. Something that, with the more and more unstable worldwide geopolitical panorama, the EU desires to appropriate now.

“Europe is currently depending on third countries for many of the critical materials that you need most. We have to increase our own production, diversify our external supply and make collapses,” stated the vp of the Commission for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy, Stéphane Séjourné.

“We must extract more and open more mines in Europe, and we must also transform more and recycle equally more,” stated EU’s pending activity to keep away from being so excessively depending on additional -community international locations.

The first 47 tasks now recognized, of 170 introduced throughout the framework of the Critical Matters Law permitted rather less than a yr in the past, search to ensure the availability of vital supplies, a “milestone of European sovereignty as an industrial power,” stated French.

Three of the chosen tasks in Spain are in Extremadura: it’s the Aguablanca undertaking in Monesterio (Badajoz), the one one in Spain that extracts nickel, along with copper; The lithium sustainable mining undertaking of the Lithium Iberia firm in Las Navas (Cáceres) and the P6 Metals undertaking of Iberian Resources Spain based mostly in Almoharín, additionally in Cáceres. They are joined by the round undertaking of copper extraction, based mostly in Huelva; the copper mine Las Cruces (Seville); The Doade Lithium mine in Galicia, and the Wolframium mine El Moto in Ciudad Real.

Except for the Aguablanca undertaking, which is a reserve in favor of the State, the processing of Spanish tasks is within the palms of the Autonomous Communities, that are those who have the competences in environmental mining and analysis.

In whole, the 47 chosen tasks are in 13 Member States: along with Spain, it’s Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Estonia, Czech Republic, Greece, Sweden, Finland, Portugal, Poland and Romania.